--log server option is deprecated and has been removed in 5.6

[Maciej Dobrzanski]

MySQL Sandbox generated MySQL configuration files still use 'log' option to enable and configure general log. This option is deprecated since 5.1 in favour of 'general-log' and has been removed completely in MySQL 5.6.

[Maciej Dobrzanski (mushu)]

Perhaps the easiest solution would be adding version specific [mysqld] sections to my.cnf to maintain backwards compatibility regardless of the version, e.g.:

[mysqld-5.0]
log = ...

[mysqld-5.5]
general-log = ON
general-log-file = /home/psce/sandboxes/rsandbox_mysql-5_6_10/master/data/msandbox.log

and so on...

[Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia)]

Thanks for this bug report/

The log file option is commented, so it would not really be an issue if we use it in MySQL 5.1, 5.5, or 5.6. In these versions, we can run 'set global general_log=on' rather than restarting the server.

Anyway, the fix is easy and it will be applied in the next release (later today, when the tests finish running for all MySQL versions)

[Giuseppe Maxia (giuseppe-maxia)]

fixed in version 3.0.33